Portland's Past
Portland's Past

Author: Luann Yetter

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1614234639

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized Portland, Maine, as the beautiful town that is seated by the sea. In this volume, Maine author Luann Yetter presents the stories from its past that not only showcase this exquisiteness but also illuminate its diverse and exciting history. The founding members of the Forest City braved the harsh winters, but not without scandals and struggles. One man raised a navy to fight the Barbary pirates threatening ships that sailed from Casco Bay, and privateers brought rum onboard and ashore. And while one Portlander traded slaves, many others worked the Underground Railroad as staunch antislavery crusaders. Discover Portland from its beginning as uncharted territory through to its development into the quintessential New England city it is today.

The Mighty Gastropolis: Portland
The Mighty Gastropolis: Portland

Author:

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2012-12-26

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1452105960

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Explores the kitchens, personal lives, and mindsets of Portland's celebrated cooks to chronicle, with humor and panache, a people's army of maverick chefs, artisans, obsessives, farmers, food carters, and plucky pioneers who have created a risk-taking, no rules food town unlike any other, which is exporting its culinary ethos, innovations, and sensibilities to America's gastronomic power zones.

Rebels Without a Cause?
Rebels Without a Cause?

Author: Gerd Hurm

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9783039109364

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The figure of the rebel of the 1950s shaped the imagination of the American post-war generation. Yet the notoriety of the rebel resides uneasily beside that of the conformist, ironically one of the other central figures of the decade. This collection of essays, which originated at an international conference in Trier, Germany, in 2005, sets out to explain the multiple representations of rebellion and affirmation in 1950s American culture. It explores the ways in which rebellion was 'contained' and also disruptive during this pivotal decade of American ascendance on the global scene. In a series of essays written by prominent American Studies scholars in the United States and Germany, the collection explores the meaning of rebellion in the 1950s and its role in shaping theological, literary and cultural discourses.

The War of the Rebellion
The War of the Rebellion

Author: United States. War Department

Publisher:

Published: 1893

Total Pages: 1140

ISBN-13:

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Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.

Convicts
Convicts

Author: Clare Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-01-13

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1108888569

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Clare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not connected solely to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to histories of governance, occupation, and global connections across the world. Exploring punitive mobility to islands, colonies, and remote inland and border regions over a period of five centuries, she proposes a close and enduring connection between punishment, governance, repression, and nation and empire building, and reveals how states, imperial powers, and trading companies used convicts to satisfy various geo-political and social ambitions. Punitive mobility became intertwined with other forms of labour bondage, including enslavement, with convicts a key source of unfree labour that could be used to occupy territories. Far from passive subjects, however, convicts manifested their agency in various forms, including the extension of political ideology and cultural transfer, and vital contributions to contemporary knowledge production.

Report
Report

Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 934

ISBN-13:

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